Nearly 14 million Australians now have access to some form of pay-TV/subscription TV, up 11.8 per cent on a year ago, according to analyst firm Roy Morgan Research, who suggest it is not just Netflix driving the increase, with large year-over-year increases for several SVoD services including Netflix, Stan, YouTube Premium and Amazon Prime Video. […]
Video software solutions specialist Espial has released its vision paper, Digital Transformation, The New Imperatives for Operators, which reveals the real opportunities available for video operators that embrace a truly disruptive business model. Taking a page from companies such as
The average Briton now only watches 12 TV channels from the hundreds they sign up to – as the appetite for streamed, on-demand content is surging. Streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon are
Tech giants have become increasingly dominant and UK government ministers must open the market up to increase consumer choice and give people greater control over their data, an independent review has concluded. Harvard Professor Jason Furman has warned that UK competition rules must be updated to be fit for the digital age. He cited the […]
Microsoft, Tencent and other cloud service providers have many of the attributes that make a successful entrance into the cloud gaming market, according to a report from global business information provider IHS Markit. That seems to be a prudent decision, since consumer spending on cloud gaming content subscriptions reached $234 million in 2018 and is […]
The Asia Pacific pay-TV sector is vibrant, with both subscribers (up by 68 million) and revenues (up by $2.35 billion) forecast to rise over the next five years. However, these forecasts are lower than the previous Asia Pacific Pay-TV Forecasts report, mainly due to many cable subscribers in China converting to OTT. Simon Murray, Principal […]
DFC Intelligence has released its latest global video game console market forecast. One of the biggest issues is the growing digital delivery of software on console systems. DFC Intelligence forecasts that revenue from digital delivery of console software will pass sales of packaged software in 2019. The movement to digital delivery has been a gradual […]
The markets and technologies which will drive continued rapid broadband growth over the next decade have been revealed by Broadband Forum and Point Topic in a report which predicts there will be 1.2 billion fixed broadband subscribers by 2025. Following the announcement last October that there are now one billion global fixed broadband subscribers, this […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that the largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 2,875,000 net video subscribers in 2018, compared to a pro forma loss of about 1,510,000 subscribers in 2017. The top pay-TV providers account for 89.1 million subscribers – with […]
According to research by broadband Internet services consumer champion BroadbandNow, some 39 million US adults added or switched home Internet, TV or phone service in 2018. The research, BroadbandNow 2019 U.S. Internet, TV & Phone Shopping Study, examines why Internet, TV and phone customers switch providers or subscribe to new services, and whether or not […]